I grew up knowing that our family was poor. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Every time it comes to the outdated festival and poverty, this word is more vividly expressed.

While other families sit around and eat meat, our family is stewed with radish and fish. Especially in winter, this dish has become the main dish of our family for three days and two ends, and there is no fish in such a main dish.

The reason is very simple, in winter, stewed fish with white radish, you can have less fish and more water. If it is done at night, it will become fish jelly the next day. A large pot of fish jelly vegetables can be eaten for a long time, even the dishes we brought to school, and the usual meals are also available.

Even so, I never disliked this family, because I knew that my father went out to work every day and worked hard to move bricks for other people's families from morning to night.

The only thing I don't like is my mother, she always seems to be very idle, and it can't be said to be idle, listen to grandma, my mother's task in this life is to give birth to a son in our family, in order to have a son, she doesn't have to do anything. The child is born without her mother, the housework is not done by her, and the pig is not taken care of by her.

The patriarchal mentality of Lingu Village is too serious, and my grandmother often uses this as an excuse to scold us and my mother. The eldest uncle's family and the second uncle's family have sons, but our family does not have them.

All three of us were daughters, when my mother was pregnant with her fourth child. The whole Lingu village said that my mother had a younger brother in her belly, and we were very happy.

Everyone was looking forward to it, but I wasn't.

Because, many people have told me that if this younger brother is really born, then our three sisters will have no status in the family. Even if we don't have a younger brother in the family, we don't have much status, especially in the eyes of grandpa and grandma. Their family is very rich, they live in a red brick house, and the pocket money they give to their cousins is more than the New Year's money for us.

I often see grandparents buying haha milk, melon seeds, and lollipops for their cousins. Even if we were in front of them, they wouldn't give it to me, just because I wasn't their grandson because I didn't have a son.

On this day, when I came back from picking pigweed with my eldest sister and third sister, I saw the eldest aunt and the second aunt arguing with my mother.

"What are you fighting for? It's useless to give you six toilets, and you don't have the money to build a new house, my mother has already said that for them a few grandchildren, one for each person, Zhang Yimei, what else are you embarrassed to fight with us? ”

The eldest aunt pinched her waist and stood there pointing at her mother and scolding her.

"That is, as I said a long time ago, your baby is still a daughter, and it is impossible to give birth to a son. Let me tell you, Zhang Yimei, your family has no son in your life, don't think about this toilet. After a while, we will tell my mother to let her sell it quickly, and the money can only go to us. ”

The second aunt scolded a righteous one, and her mother was so angry that she cried: "You guys get out of here, get out, even if I Zhang Yimei can't give birth to a son in this life, I will be bullied by you." While crying, my mother beat the two aunts out with a broom.

The three sisters and I also cried together, and when Dad came home in the evening, Mom cried and complained to Dad. Then I saw my father, who had never smoked, and stood at the door with a cigarette and smoked for most of the night.

Our family doesn't have a son who is not even qualified to compete for the toilet, let alone the good things in the hands of grandparents.

On the morning of the Mid-Autumn Festival, we were still in the attic with a simple wooden plank, when we heard my mother's cry, saying that it was very painful.

It wasn't long before we heard a baby's cry, followed by a mother's heart-rending cry.

It turned out that the fourth child in our family was a daughter again.

The arrival of the fourth child did not add any joy to our family, but instead shrouded the whole family with a layer of melancholy, and others said that our family became poorer and poorer. The fourth daughter was finally full moon, and she didn't have a name, and then we all called her Xiaosi.

She is very weak and has never cried since she was spanked by her father when she was born and cried. Hungry, pulled, urinated, and all hummed. People in Lingu Village are spreading that Xiaosi has lived for a short time. My eldest sister and my third sister like to guard the fourth child after they are busy.

But one day, I heard my grandmother and my mother discussing giving away Xiao Si, saying that Xiao Si was an inauspicious person, born frail and sickly, and our family was so poor that we couldn't afford to support it. Seriously, I still have a little bit of anticipation that I'll be sent away.

Of course, if Xiaosi is sent away, it will be good, so that it will not affect our family, and she will be better off than us in the future.

I heard that she will be sent to a rich family to be a daughter, and then she can wear new clothes every day and eat meat every day. At the same time, I hid this secret, and I was also for the sake of Xiao Sihao.

It's good to leave this home, leave this village, and live a rich life.

Our village is too backward, our family is too poor, we can't even eat meat, and Xiaosi will definitely not be able to support our family.

Sure enough, that day, my mother gave me three cents and asked me to take my eldest sister and third sister out to buy candy to eat. A dime could buy five lollipops, and I spent a dime, and the two cents I left behind went into my own pocket. I also lied to the eldest sister and the third sister, saying that my father didn't need to let us take the fourth child today.

It's the same as I thought, but it's different.

Xiaosi was really sent away by his grandmother and mother, but he was snatched back by his father.

We are all gathered at the door of the Lu family's ancestral hall, the Lu family's ancestral hall, I have wanted to go in and see it since I was a child. However, because I am a daughter, I have never been in for six years. saw his father kneeling there, fighting for the name of Xiaosi, saying that he wanted to raise him as a son.

Although I don't know very much, I know that Xiaosi has a name, and after my father scolded my mother that night, I happily hugged Xiaosi and drank wine.

The fourth child has a boy's name -- Lu Qinghe!

This name is also included in the family tree, in addition to the father's name in our family, it is Lu Qinghe who has entered the family tree, and she is also the only girl in the family surnamed Lu on the family tree.

Dad told us that Lu Qinghe will be the son of our family in the future, and we must let her do everything as sisters.

I may have been jealous of my sister who was six years younger than me.

I thought our family was very poor now and we weren't doing well. However, what I didn't expect was that after having Lu Qinghe, our family's life seemed to be getting worse and worse.

Because, everything good was given to Lu Qinghe, the 'son'.

It's really ironic to say, Lu Qinghe has been taught by his father since he was a child, and he is also very well-behaved. However, because she was not in good health, she put all the money that our three sisters needed to go to school on her to see a doctor and take medicine. At the beginning of each semester, I led the eldest sister and the third sister to Teacher Lu to pay for credit.

"Teacher Lu, our family has no money now, my parents said that when our family sells pigs, they will come and pay the money." This sentence, I kept saying that I dropped out of school.

Because of this sentence, I can't hold my head up among many people my age.

The registration fee for each semester is so poor that it is all on credit, in arrears, and it takes several months to pay it slowly.

Fortunately, Mr. Lu is very good, he never disliked me because I owed tuition, and Mr. Lu would often give me some food. However, the good times did not last long, and when Mr. Lu fell ill later, when he left, he also told the teacher who replaced him about the situation of our family, even if Mr. Lu was not there, we could still go to school on credit.

Lu Qinghe's health is really bad, and he often has a fever, because after having her, my eldest sister and I have lost a lot of weight. When Lu Qinghe was four years old, she was sent to kindergarten by her father.

Within two weeks, everyone in Lin Gu Village knew that Lu Qinghe was an idiot.

She can't learn pinyin, but she can't learn pinyin.

Really an idiot .... Inexplicably, I was actually very happy, and I ate two bowls of soy sauce that day.

Lu Qinghe's changes, slowly our three sisters felt it. In the past, Lu Qinghe was well-behaved and sensible, even if our sisters didn't like her very much, but we still had to take care of her and follow her emotions, she would still have what she liked to eat and share with us, and she often made trouble unreasonably.

One day, however, she ran out to play and came back crying.

The next day, she came back smiling, still holding an apple.

Apples, oh my God, I've just heard of them, don't eat them when I see them. I've never tasted it, it's expensive. I coaxed Lu Qinghe to let her cut it, and the four of us sisters ate it together. She refused, resisted, and sued her father, saying that I robbed her of food.

I'm angry, isn't it supposed to cut such a big apple and eat it for everyone?

Lu Qinghe refused to forget it, she still held the apple every day and shook it in front of me every day.

It's just that it didn't take long for her to come back crying from outside, and the apple was dirty, and the clothes on her body were dirty. She cried and bit the apple, and even ate the mud in her mouth, and she wouldn't let us wash it, so she just sat there crying and didn't say anything.

After a long time, we learned that Lu Qinghe had a bad time in kindergarten, was often scolded by Teacher Xiaolu, and was often bullied by his classmates.

The reason why she was willing to eat such a precious apple that day was because the person who gave her the apple was gone.

I don't know who sent it, I only know that after that day, Lu Qinghe was really bad.

As long as she is in a bad mood, she likes to find the stubble of our three sisters; She is angry and bullied outside, and she likes to find a sense of presence in us. Many times, we were wronged, and Dad beat us up indiscriminately.

When Lu Qinghe was five years old, her mother gave birth to another daughter.

The birth of Xiaomeng made our family participate in the joy, but it also made me and my eldest sister leave home early.

It is impossible for a poor family like ours to go to school with five children, and the eldest sister dropped out of school after half a semester to work in Suoyang City. Then, I did the same, because my three younger sisters had so good grades.

An idiot like Lu Qinghe, after being scolded and laughed at by everyone from a toddler to the third grade of primary school, her grades have improved. is good enough to be in the top three of the class, and because of this, Dad loves her even more.

After I arrived in Suoyang City, I followed my eldest sister to the factory, the assembly line of the glass bottle factory. The work is quite tiring, and every day is non-stop work. The salary is not high, especially when I received my first month's salary of five hundred and two, and I was so happy that I called my parents.

In order to make more money, as long as there is overtime in the factory, I will definitely be there every day.

Occasionally, after work, people about my age go out to play, go shopping or anything, and I don't go. Many of my colleagues say that I don't fit in, but in fact, I also want to go shopping, and I also want to buy some gadgets that I like. But no, there are three younger sisters in the family who still have to study and build a new house.

On the phone, my mother said that the rain leakage in our house was getting worse and worse. It's best to build a new house, otherwise Lu Qinghe can't marry her husband back.

When my eldest sister and I were still trying to make money, there was a flood in our house. The whole family is gone, and my mother and Xiaomeng are crying on the phone. My eldest sister and I also cried when we heard the news, there is no home, what should we do? Where does the money come from to build a house?

Nothing left, where is the money?

Even the grandparents have a bit of a conscience, and they gave up an old house for their parents to live in temporarily. But our salary is just a drop in the bucket when we build a house. In order to make more money, the eldest sister left the factory, and I stayed here to continue working.

I know everything, I don't even have the craft, how can I make a lot of money?

Later, the third sister with good grades also came out to work, I took her to work, only to know that our family's new house was completed by her and her father, in order to save, my parents didn't even invite people, they were all built by themselves. The efficiency of the factory is getting worse and worse, and we can only find free time to pick up scraps to sell. Waste newspapers, plastic bottles, iron blocks, as long as we can sell for money, we pick up everything.

After seven years of part-time work, I am twenty years old, and I can be regarded as an old girl in Lingu Village. My mother asked me to get married, saying that I could get some bride price if I got married, so that Lu Qinghe and Xiaomeng would not have to worry about tuition fees when they went to school.

Actually, when my mother said this, I really wanted to go up and quarrel with her.

She is in my world, doing nothing, playing mahjong all day long, getting pregnant, and giving birth to children. Nothing else has been done, let alone taught me, but it will determine my life.

However, I hated her and didn't dare to resist.

I just transferred all my hatred for my mother to Lu Qinghe.

I will buy food for Xiaomeng and give her pocket money, but I will never give her a little benefit in private, and I will give it in front of my father, pretending to be filial piety and pretending to be a good sister.

As my mother wished, I went on a blind date to the ninth man, and he told me that he opened a hairdresser in the county, said that he would support me for a lifetime, and after taking me to live in the county, I immediately agreed.

I got married to someone I didn't know for a week, and I didn't get any of the bride price, I gave it all to my parents, and it took Lu Qinghe and them.

Li Shijie is from Xincun, after I married him, he was really good to me at first. However, he lied to me from the beginning. He said that there was 'a hairdresser he owned' but that he worked there, and he was paid more than others, and the boss gave him a little share.

I was angry, but Li Shijie was right, my family is so poor, what else do you want to ask for to marry someone like him who doesn't worry about food and clothing?

Not long after, I got pregnant and gave birth.

Li Shijie's heart was also ambitious, so he sold his little shares and came out to start his own small business. It's a really small business, buying some New Year's goods cheaply from Suoyang City, selling them at a high price in the county, and occasionally going to the countryside to sell them, making a little money.

At that time, it happened that Lu Qinghe came with good news that she was admitted to university. The first female college student in Lingu Village, her parents were proud and worried.

What should I do if I need money for college, but my family has no money?

The third sister became a victim like me. (To be continued.) )